W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the always entertaining What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is used for?

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please - though you can enter as many as you'd like. The first one to guess correctly and the funniest wrong guess will win T-shirts of their choice from the Neatorama Shop.

IMPORTANT: Please write your choice of T-shirt along with your guess. Visit the Neatorama Shop and take a look at what you'd like, OK?

Write no URL or weblinks - doing so will forfeit your entry. You have until the right answer is posted on the What is it? Blog.

Update 2/22/10 - the answer is: A linstock that was utilized by the gun captain to ignite a cannon, it used a smoldering match rope that was soaked in potassium nitrate. It's missing its long wood handle. Congratulations to Timothy P who got it right first and to Amander for "early Victorian IUD."

I can't tell how wide it is, depending on the size it could be either ( with the wood handle attached) a lifter for getting canning jars out of the boiling water, or a lifter for picking the laundry out of the hot water. Maybe. Any Large t-shirt.

it is a piece of an acme tongue carrier that is used to take the strain from the horse's neck- specialized farming tool from the early 1900s..the holes had an axel and wheel between them and another piece would protrude from the hole..eh..whatever